February 27 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1659 – Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
• 1699 – Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c.1625)
• 1706 – John Evelyn, English diarist (b. 1620)
• 1720 – Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
• 1735 – John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)
• 1795 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Jamapese sumo wrestler, the 4^th Yokozuna (b. 1750)
• 1844 – Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (b. 1786)
• 1887 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
• 1892 – Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
• 1902 – Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Anglo-Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (b. 1864)
• 1902 – Peter Handcock, Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (b. 1869)
• 1921 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
• 1932 – William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
• 1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
• 1936 – Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
• 1941 – William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
• 1943 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
• 1964 – Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
• 1968 – Frankie Lymon, American singer (b. 1942)
• 1969 – Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
• 1972 – Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
• 1973 – Bill Everett, American comic book artist, co-created Daredevil and Namor the Sub-Mariner for Marvel Comics (b. 1917)
• 1977 – John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
• 1978 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
• 1980 – George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1981 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)
• 1986 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 1987 – Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
• 1989 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
• 1989 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
• 1992 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
• 1993 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1998 – George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
• 1998 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
• 2002 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
• 2003 – John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
• 2004 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Jessica Lunsford, murder victim (b. 1995)
• 2006 – Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
• 2006 – Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (b. 1929)
• 2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American conservative author and commentator (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Boyd Coddington, American automobile designer (b. 1944)